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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2004
Sung-bae Lee, Hwasung-si, KR;
Sang-rok Ha, Seoul, KR;
Hyo-jong Lee, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A method of chemical mechanical polishing that polishes a substrate by abrading a target material formed on the substrate with a polishing pad containing a slurry includes setting a polishing end time, at which time a predetermined thickness of the target material will have been removed from the substrate by polishing, polishing the substrate to remove the predetermined thickness of the target material, and increasing a level of byproduct contamination in the polishing pad to decrease a polishing rate, while polishing the substrate, so that the polishing rate decreases to approximately zero at the polishing end time.